Bjarni Snæbjörnsson
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bjarnisnae@hotmail.com

Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Hello you all!

OK, I have about 5 minutes to write this and I'm really sorry that I don't have more time this time. The internet here in Mincqua Public Library is very popular and I'm on scheduel. It took me about 15 minutes to read all the mails that you guys had sent me! THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!! I laughed really hard at all of them and they make me miss you all more!!! There's no way that I'm able to write to you individually at all, so, bare with me. You all know who you are. THanks a bunch!!

Just a reminder:

DON'T SEND ME ANY BIG MAILS!!!!!!! Letters are fine, but pics and stuff that cloggs up everything here is just FORBIDDEN!!!

I almost had my hotmail account closed because of that just now and about 6 warnings from the hotmail staff!

Camp is awsome, although it's the best to have some time off today! Weather hasn't been that great at all! I'm just been wearing my raincoat every day. Because I'm the waterfront director I just use every chance that I get to push the boys at my camp into the water when it stops raining! Now it's about 25 C and beautiful out, so... Gotta love it
I have my day of with Andrey from Russia. He's a counsellor aswell and extremely funny. He has the thickest accent but we just laugh and act all crazy all the time, well, me just being me...;-)
Kids are all good. We have about 52 this year and last Saturday all the counsellor had a day off and 5 people (including me) had to manage the kids for 12 hours by our selves! It was fun, but hard believe me. All the people at camp are all good and I'm having a blast as normally. For those of you who are in the States and want to meet me at any time during this summer, the number is 1-715-266-4939 and of course everyone is welcome to call whenever! About 10:15 in the evening Central time would be best!

I'm getting a tan slowly, but the sun is not showin itself very much, but I hope it will get better.

This summer Northern Wisconsin has a massive fly problem! It's sooooo weird. There are these flies that just irritate that shit out of you and walk all over you. I've never seen so many of them before and this is my 3 summer here. They actually said on the radio the other day and the flies would be leaving in the end of the week. I don't know where they should go. But aparently that's when they lay their eggs and we are having a late spring this summer, so... I just want them all to DIE!!!!;-)

I need to go now, seriously, no time left. Hope this is enough now!

Take care ya'll and miss you soooooooo much!

Bjarni

posted by Bjarni Snæbjörnsson 23:06
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Sunday, June 09, 2002
OK, I know the next message starts in Iceland, but if you look closer, it's in English from line 2 an on, so.... read on guys!!!!

posted by Bjarni Snæbjörnsson 05:12
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Hallo og hae hae!!
OK, eins og tid kannski sjaid ta er eg nuna i utlondum og tad er frekar erfitt ad venjast 'o'islensku lyklabordi!! Tannig ad td verdid bara ad fyrirgefa!

I actually think that's a way better idea to write in Icelandic anyways, 'cause now I'm in the US and the keyboard here are not Icelandic (obviously), so I'll just stick the English language!
So, I'm in the states and I'm loving it so far ! I actually got sunburned today and I got a tan line! OK, let's start at the beginning!
I left Iceland on June 4th (my mum and dad's 25th wedding anniversary, if someone wants to wish them a happy anniversary my mum has the email: fmt@simnet.is )!!! Anyways, I left that morning very very very early! I slept for about an hour and a half because I had to pack, say bye to a couple of people, clear my room 'cause there are some people going to rent it this summer, etc, etc...
My friend Gulli came over at about 5 in the morning and he drove me to the Leifstod airport. I got there and bought some stuff and all of a sudden felt really tired. Maybe 'cause I didn't sleep that much;-) The time was about 7 am when I called my old work at the gym, which doesn't have a name now that I know of because someone just bought it. It openes at 6 am, so I just wanted to leave a message for the people that I work with there, they are all awsome!

The flight was quite pleasant. I was happy to land at Heathrow airport, London though. I don't what it is, but I somehow always feel like that I have to wait forever for my luggage at luggage claim! I waited for a long long time! Oh, I forgot, I actually bought some stuff for the people that I was going to stay with in the duty-free in Iceland, but I forgot the bag on the Icelandair plane and when I asked for it, it was gone! So..., sorry Hannes, Kata, Sif and Olla! Thanks for letting me stay, you are all awsome!
So, I was at Heathrow and I caught the tube to Bethnal Green and then a bus for about 5 minutes to their house! I was so happy to be there! They, that is; Olla, Sif and Kata, were all ready to go out, so that's what we did! It was awsome! We went to Balans to begin with (a great gay orientated restaurant on Old Compton Rd), then we moved from there to a place called the Village! It was OK! We actually met an Icelandic guy called Bjartmar who is studying drama in London and he came out with us. So, we were five and we decided to try to get into that really "hot" club called "The Shadow Lounge"! It sounded cool. The girls put me infront of them, 'cause aparently there was supposed to be a guest list and we had to pass that! So, I just went up to that little posh robe and said : "HI"! And the bouncer said: "Hello, are you guys on the guest list?"! I said: "NO, do we need to be?" (and I pulled up a very Icelandic accent, just like Bjork)! He said: "NO, of course not"!!!!! So, we all walked in! How great was that. So, just a hint for you guys out there, just pull up an accent and smile and you WILL get into the Shadow Lounge in London!
We had a good time in there and we met some cool people and had some laughs! I actually stayed longer than everyone else 'cause I made some great people. And you all know me, the people person, I stayed to had a blast until I went home about 2 hours later!
The next day I woke at about noon and Olla and Sif had already ordered tickets for the musical Taboo which Boy George made! It was actually quite something, to say the least. It didn't start of very promising, but it turned out to be very very good. I walked out there a very happy man. Me, Olla and Sif went to a Thai restaurant in Soho and had really good food. Then I went all by myself to "Kiss me Kate", in Victoria Palace! An award winning show, and it was SSOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun! I loved it! I didn't even care about going by myself!! It was so fun! After it I went home and me and Olla and Sif sat for hours and drank red and white wine and were just talking! Again I slept for about an hour 'cause my flight was very very early. Plus, I was very far away from Heathrow, so I needed to start very early. Actually, when I got to the tube station, they hadn't even opened the passage to go down into the subway, so, I had to wait outside for a little bit with some people! I slept almost all the time on the way to Heathrow on my bag, (maybe because I didn't sleep for but and hour!!;-) Then, Heahrow was all clogged up with people 'cause the whole computer system was down that day in the whole airport! I actually stayed in line for about hours out of the 7 that I was at the airport. All the check in couters had to manually check us in, and it was actually quite sufficient, unbelievably enough! But there was a delay of 2 hours and then we were off and I slept the whole way to Chicago!
I met my friend Tony and stayed with him for two days in down town Chicago and I had an amazing time down there! I went all the way up to Sears towers right away on the Thursday and it was fine. Me and Tony went out for dinner that night and had a blast. On Friday I woke up at noon and had breakfast at the Corner Bakery and then went to the post office to send a book to my mum that I had bought for her.I was going to walk to the Field museum from the Navy Pier (for the once who know it, it's actually quite a distance), but I decided not to when I saw how far it was, if would have taken me the whole day!!! So, I just went back to change into my sneakers and I went jogging by the lake! There were actually quite many people around but it was about 25 C outside and I just really much felt like jogging, so... It was awsome. I felt just like doctor Green on ER, I've seen in jog right there where I was jogging! This area is bautiful, too! I had a shower and then me and Tony went again to have a dinner at a really nice Italian restaurant and were actually going out that evening, too. We went to a club called, SPIN! It was OK, I guess. It's in the neighbourhood called 'Boys-Town' And is a well know area in Chicago for being gay orientated. On Friday nights they have shower-dancing competition or something, which actually was very sad! The guys stepped on stage and danced for about a minute under a shower with only a towel to conceal their private parts! But it wasn't much of a show at all! We tryed going to another club and then another but I couldn't get into one of them with my ISIC student ID, and the other one had shitty music, so, we just went home!
The day after, which actually is, today, we started off having brunch with Tony's lesbian friends! Laura Lee, Jaimee (I actually have no idea how to write that name, but those two are a couple) and then Donna! We had a nice brunch and I finally got going after the brunch 'cause I had food in my stomach! Donna had to leave, and that left me, Tony, Laura and Jaime (AGAIN: ?) to go to a big festival to 'Girls-town'! It was SOOOO much fun! I know I sound really tacky about all this AWSOME, GREAT, UNBELIEVABLE, STUNNING, COOL, etc... but I'm tellin you guys, that's what it is. There are not words to describe the fun I had today! I was just really sad that I had to leave! It was a big festival and somehow and for some reason it is a combined festival of Swedish descendents and Chicago lesbians! What a coold combination. There was an old woman, dressed in the Swedish tratitional dress, next to a leather, gay, butch guy talking about AIDS awairness!! How cool is that! I had the best of time. Soon, the four of us; me, Tony, Laura and Jaime (?) found a really nice little bar by that street and we started buying those alchohol slush things with strawberry flavor1 YUM! It was honestly about 25 - 30 degrees C and I actually took my top of there and we just drank these coctails all day. The music was awome. There were people everywere, Swedes, gay guys, but especially lesbians and we were all just talking along all day long. I actually made really good friends today; Laura and Jaime! I think I drank about 7 of those slush things and I was feeling quite tipsy (drunk woud be the correct term, though). We moved to the back of that bar and we stared talking to these people and everyone was just so, so, so, so, so, so, nice! We actually stayed ifront of that bar before, but we moved to the back of it later on. But we alwasy stayed in the sun! I actually got a little sunburned today and the back of my neck feels a little soar beacause of that! The people I met there were all really great and I love Laura, Jaime, and of course Tony G!! The guy that I stayed with, what an awsome person! Heida would know, she met him while he was in Iceland actually ;-)!!!
But everything comes to an end and I need to leave, 'cause I was going to work in Wisconsin for the summer and had not forgotten that. I had to break away from all these great people and say good-bye for the time being and leave. Tony went with me to the train station but it wasn't that sad saying good-bye to everyone, 'cause I knew I would see them all again in the beginning of August, that is, after camp, so...

I stepped of the train in Homewood, Illinois and there, another Tony was waiting for me, but this one is Tony Corsello! I need to point out now that that when I talk about Tony, I'm talking about Tony that I work with, and when I talk about Tony G, I'm talking about the Tony that I staid with in the city! So; Tony G = city, Tony G = city, OK?
Anyways! I went to Tony's house and there was also Dominic, his brother and I was very glad to see them both! they are really great guys and I do enjoy their company all the time! Otherwise I don't think that I would be able to come back here, summer after summer. So, I was very glad to see them! Their parents came over a little later and we went out for dinner, all the five of us, me, Tony (no, G,. only Tony, s, Tony that I work with!!!;-), Dominic and their parents. They're all great people and I had a blast. Maybe itad something to do with the fact that I had been drinking all these coctails during the day, plus I had beer with dinner, but, whatever the reason was, I had a blast!
So, now we have come to the moment that is right now! We came home to the guys' house (the brothers Tony and Dominic live together and Glenwood school campus) and THE FIGHT was on while I was writing this whole damn mess. With 'The Fight' I mean Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson heavyweight championship on TV live! I couldn't really care less, but Lewis won and I'm all happy for him, YAY, cheers to you Lewis, whoever you are!
Now, I'm probably going to sleep and we are going to drive up to Camp Glenwood tomorrow morning! me, Tony, Dominic and Mark (the camp director) are all driving up together in four cars, so I'm going got be driving one of the vans that we use up there, so, it should be interesting to be driving on the expressway, 'cause I've never done that before. But I'm driving a very very new van (model 2002, I think, so, I'm actually looking forward to the drive and to camp, too. I friggin' love that job and I can't wait to just get started. But to those in Chicago area: I'm coming back to see you guys!
To all of you In Iceland, Aussie and everywhere else, I miss you all. Heida; Tony G gives you a big hug and he's waiting for the day that you come visit him!!! Camp Glenwood is on tomorrow and and I can't wait. Loads of love to all of you guys and thanks for reading this horse shit!

Love

Bjarni

posted by Bjarni Snæbjörnsson 05:11
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Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Hæ öll sömul!!

Það eru að fara að koma nýja upplýsingar handa ykkur. Ég er bara að undirbúa mikið og svo rugla ég eitthvað í ykkur!
Hey guys! I will bring you some goss soon, so don´t worry! I´m just trying to get everything organized before I leave. Plus, work is insane!
Sjáumst!
Bjarni


posted by Bjarni Snæbjörnsson 19:58
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Tuesday, May 07, 2002
Góðan daginn allir saman!

Frábært að eiga sína eigin heimasíðu núna. Nú get ég ruglað og ruglað og fólk virkilega ræður því hvort það fari inn á síðuna mína og lesi það. Vaninn hingað til hefur verið að senda bara öllum sem ég þekki endalaust rugl í tölvupósti, en nú verður breyting á því. JIIIIBBÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ!
Ég vil reyndar byrja á því að þakka honum Gulla engli fyrir þessa síðu. Hann reddaði þessu öllu fyrir mig. Þú ert Gulli gull og takk!

Í framtíðinni mun ég koma til með að skrifa bæði á íslensku og ensku og kannski frönsku svona nokkrum sinnum. Það mun líklega þó aukast til muna þegar ég fer út til La France næsta haust! En þið vitið bara af því. Þannig að ef ykkur finnst nóg að lesa íslenskuna, þá bara flettið þið áfram þar til þið komið að henni og lesið það.

En byrjum nú á því sem er á döfinni hjá mér.

Ég er í miðjum prófum eins og er og nenni því ALLS ekki. En ég á bara 6 daga eftir af þessu, þannig að ekki er ég að kvarta yfir því. Föstudaginn 10. maí er íslenskt nútímamál, 11. maí er 5. stigs söngprófið mitt og svo 13. maí er lokaprófið mitt og það er í inngangi að málvísindum II. Vááá, hvað það verður gott að verða búinn með þetta allt saman. ÉG ætla svo að koma til með að vinna eins og moðerfokker í Planet pump þar til maí er úti. Ég ætla reyndar að reyna að vinna lítið á morgunvöktum, því ég hef skiljanlega meiri áhuga á því að hanga á kaffihúsum fram eftir öllu og eyða tíma með vinum mínum og fjölskyldu. Sérstaklega líka þar sem ég er að fara til USA í allt sumar og svo aðeins um þriggja vikna stop á landinu áður en ég held áfram til Frakklands. Ég á ekki allan tíma í heiminum.
Það sem ég get svo ekki beðið eftir er helgarferð með vinahópnum mínum til Tálknafjarðar um sjómannadagshelgina. Það verður geggjað stuð, ég er viss um það. Ég, Heiða, Gulli, Bentína, Héðinn, Þröstur, Hreiðar, Pétur og vonandi líka Lísa. Hafsteinn er að "skreppa" til Ítalíu, þannig að hann verður fjarri góðu gamni en fær náttúrulega sitt eigið góða gaman. En, foreldrar mínir og bræður ætla sem sagt að taka á móti okkur og við ætlum út á Látrabjarg og líklega í Selárdal og svo bara hanga í Pollinum o.s.frv. Það er bara GAMAN SAMAN!

Í sambandi við stafsetningarvillur og annan slíkan ósóma, þá reyni ég að gera þetta eins vel og ég get, en ég nenni ómögulega að lesa allt yfir sem ég geri, þannig að reynið bara að leiða það hjá ykkur.

posted by Bjarni Snæbjörnsson 08:14
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Góðan daginn allir saman!

How about giving the English speakers a little break!?

Welcome to my new site! Like it? I love it. I think it´s SOOO friggin' cool to have my own site, it ROCKS! But what doesn´t rock is when one has written about 5 pages of material to post on one´s new website, when one´s all new material just disapears and is never to be seen again. So, one has to write the whole thing over again, so one is not happy about that, GET THE POINT?!?!?!
But it´s all good, ´cause I´m happy about my new site. So what you do know is tip on the prase on the top of the page which says something like: "let me know when this page is updated" and follow the steps. You will be let know when my site is updated every time. Before I forget I´d like to thank Gulli for this. He´s such an awsome friend and he started this whole site for me! Thanks love!
I know it´s not the most personal thing to do to let people know what you are doing. But it´s a heck of alot easier then writing all these mass mails that I do while travelling. And when I´m home, I´ll try to write to you individually. I´m going to USA this summer and I´ll just use this to tell everyone what I´m doing. Email access is not everywhere in Northern Wisconsin. Everyone can check out what´s going on in my life. I find this really cleaver;-) I think that I´ll have most of the stuff that I puplish here in English. That´s mostly because I think every person that I know in Iceland understands English in written, so I don´t have to write the same stuff twice. Sometimes I´ll have material in Icelandic, but that´s just something you guys were not supposed to see anyways, so...;-)
So, what´s up now? I´m in the middle of exams and I´m spending all my time just bumming and writing massive essays on this really neat new web site of mine. I have one exam Friday, singing grade test on Sat. and my last Uni exam on Mon. Then one essay, then finished. YAY, can´t wait. I´m going to be spend the rest of may working my ars off and going to cafés and party and bum with friends and family! Gotta love life. Then, of probably June 4th I´m off to England for about 2 days, then Chicago for 3 days, then to my awsome summer in Camp Glenwood, Loretta, Wisconsin, USA! I just love that job as the waterfront director and assistant to nurse. Bugs, tress, water, nature, animals, great kids and awsome people to work with. Couldn´t be a better summer job. And I get to travel!!! After that time I´m back in Iceland for about 3 weeks and then I´m off to France to study for a year (I think, haven´t really decided yet how long). There aswell are not as many computers to go around, so I´ll probably use this there alot aswel! So get used to this site, it´s gonna become your best friend. Put it in your favorites, NOW!!
The first weekend of June (1st and 2nd) I´m taking a group of friends to my home town on Tálknafjörður. It´s gonna be friggin´ awsome dude. My partents are gonna greet us with grilled salmon and yummy stuff and we are going to sleep in my dad´s family´s summer house just outside of town. Just gonna explore nature, go to Látrabjarg (Westernmost point of Europe) and thnings like that. And mainly are we going to be lying in our natural hot spring very close to our summer house. CAN´T WAIT!
But more later on that.

Exams are coming and I need to be studying for a few days! Hope you like this.


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